“Consider this oddly neglected fact: the West was acquired, conquested, and largely consolidated into the nation coincident with the greatest breakthrough in the history of human communication. The breakthrough was the telegraph. The great advances that followed it, the telephone,… — Elliott West Copy Share Image
“In Wright Morris's novel Plains Song, the narrator asks, "Is the past a story we are persuaded to believe, in the teeth of the life we endure in the present?" The question is always open. How we treat our world and each other grows from our vision of how we have come to where we are. Ultimately, of course, the… — Elliott West Copy Share
“Consider this oddly neglected fact: the West was acquired, conquested, and largely consolidated into the nation coincident with the greatest breakthrough in the history… — Elliott West Copy Share Image
“Environmental history is, among other things, a lengthy account of human beings over and over imagining their way into a serious pickle.” — Elliott West Copy Share Image
